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Welcome to Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki! The purpose of this wiki is to develop a repository for good ideas within the profession. This can include success stories, insights and tips, links to useful websites and other content. When put together, the content in each section should help librarians to find inspiration and concrete ideas for improving services to their patrons. In addition to offering good ideas, the wiki is also a great place for librarians to get practice working with a wiki. Editing someone else's writing or adding to a website can be intimidating, and it's great to get our feet wet in a non-threatening wiki community of librarians. So feel free to tweak the site, add categories, add content, or make any other constructive changes. I think you'll find that wikis are extremely easy to use and are fun to play with! Hopefully, this wiki will help librarians to get thinking about how wikis can be used in libraries to serve their patrons and to

WebJunction's editorial focus for September is on Online Communities, so it seemed like a great idea to incorporate this wiki into the discussion (literally!). Feel free to write about successes you've had developing online communities at your library or any thoughts you've had on the subject. If you know of a library that is doing great things with online communities, please add a link to it and tell us what you like about it. With your help, we'll be able to develop a fantastic resource that will inspire each of us -- and others -- to think about developing online communities at our own libraries.

Anything you write within the Online Communities section of the wiki will also show up on WebJunction's website (and vice versa). Please note that the content may be moderated/edited to some extent by the folks at WebJunction before putting it on their website. If you would not like your content edited or placed on the WebJunction site, please explicitly state that in parentheses at the end of whatever you have written with your initials. For example, I would write (not for WJ - MF) at the end of what I've written if I don't want my content edited or placed on the WebJunction site. Content can be added completely anonymously, so you are able to write things that will not be associated with you in any way. I do however encourage you to register on the site and join the community!